Family Business Institute Membership benefits

Professional Benefits

FBI provides a broad range of professional benefits to members:

Expanded professional practice capabilities and increased revenues.
Higher quality, professionally challenging and more satisfying work.
Premium fee earning opportunities.
New client acquisition opportunities.
Existing client retention, especially through generational transitions.
Increased knowledge and skills in human and family group dynamics.
Greater understanding and use of emotional intelligence leads to enhanced leadership and management capabilities.
Access to proven tools, resources, programs, diagnostics, pro forma documents and worksheets.
Ongoing education and training, personal coaching, mentoring and practice building advice and support.
Realistic opportunities to transition senior professionals into rewarding new careers as advisers, mentors and non-executive directors, after retirement from mainstream practice = benefits for practices and individuals.
Opportunities to transition “restless” professionals onto rewarding new career paths that compliment, and interface with, are mainstream practice.
Personal promotion through the FBI website and associated marketing initiatives.
Potential referrals from enquiries received by FBI from family businesses.
Membership of an active network of collaborative, trustworthy family business advisors.
Increased competitive advantage through exclusive and meaningful professional accreditation.

FBI members become happier and more successful individuals through these benefits:

An enhanced understanding of emotional intelligence concepts and tools, supported by new skills, including personality profiling. This will make you a more rounded, capable and confident individual, in almost any situation.
A family business advisory pathway to better work : life balance. This will appeal to individuals seeking a new career direction and/or more control over their working lives; and to those looking for continuing gainful employment after retirement and/or after “doing their time” in mainstream practices.

Family Businesses are also big winners, as they receive:

Effortless access to a large and diverse group of dedicated, trained and competent professional advisers.
Clear and unambiguous information about proven, best practice processes – to generate the confidence needed to feel comfortable about engaging complete strangers to help deal with complex and sensitive challenges.
Confidence that all FBI accredited advisers have been trained and assessed through a stringent and meaningful training and accreditation processes.
Dependable quality control standards.
Constructive interventions if anything goes seriously wrong on an engagement.